The African American storyteller is intimately, at the deepest plumbed depth of the soul, a griot. The storytelling is a gift. It is the ultimate of sharing as it enriches through emotion and feeling. It is a way of passing the inner and outer light, it is a handing of the news across to others, and it is a feeling of the pulse of a community. Jeri Brown’s voice is as dynamically adventurous as the guts and muscle of a good captivating story. The paths, corners, places, settings, moods, and passions, are all in the tones and the notes of the phrases.
If the griot sang it would sing like Jeri, and it would sing its storytelling just as she does it. This quote is from Jeri Brown’s website bio: “I love the challenge of a musical moment…”
There is an innate spirituality, it embraces and enhances her artistry and that spirituality finds what lifts the soul and makes it fly, and then as if in harmony with the soaring, it catches the essence of that spirit and flies with it.